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dorsal; caudal shorter than head, its lower lobe longest. Grill rakers 

 long, 18 below angle. Male dark steel blue, the sides silvery, without 

 streaks or spots ; female with two alternate series of brown spots, the 

 silvery on sides clouded with dusky ; fins nearly plain, dark. Monterey 

 Bay, California ; appearing about Santa Cruz in moderate numbers each 

 fall ; not known elsewhere, and always disappearing in November. A 

 food-fish of very high quality, not inferior to any other of the family. 

 (concolor, uniformly colored.) 



Chriomilra concolor, LOCKINGTON, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1879, 133, Monterey, California. 



Scomberomorus concolor, JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 45, 1881; JORDAN & GILUERT, 



Synopsis, 426, 1883; MEEK & NEWLAND, 1. c., 233, 1884; DRESSLAR & FESLER, I. c., 442, 1889. 



1262. SCOMBEROMORUS MACULATUS (Mitchill). 

 (SPANISH MACKEREL.) 



Head 4| ; depth 4$. D. XVII-18-IX ; A. II-17-IX ; maxillary If in head ; 

 eye 4f ; pectoral If ; ventral 4 ; dorsal and anal lobes subequal, 2. Body 

 elongate, its dorsal and ventral outlines equal; profile straight from 

 snout to dorsal ; head small and pointed ; mouth large, oblique, jaws 

 equal ; maxillary reaching posterior margin of orbit ; teeth large, com- 

 pressed, and sharp, their formula being 24-24 to 32-32 ; gill rakers 2 -{- 11. 

 Soft dorsal inserted in advance of anal a distance about equal to diame- 

 ter of eye ; lateral line undulating, with about 175 pores. Color silvery, 

 bluish above ; sides with many elliptical spots of dull orange color, two 

 rows of these spots below lateral line and one row above ; spinous dorsal 

 white at base, black above ; soft dorsal tinged with yellowish, its mar- 

 gins black; anal white; posterior side of pectoral bjack, anterior side 

 yellowish with black borders; caudal blackish. Both coasts of North 

 America, appearing in large but very irregular schools in the Gulf of 

 Mexico and along the Carolina Coast ; ranging north in the fall as far as 

 Cape Ann, and south to Brazil : rare or unknown in Cuba. Weight 8 or 9 

 pounds. One of the very best food-fishes in the United States, (macu- 

 latus, spotted.) 



Scomber maculatus, MITCHILL, Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. N. T., i, 1815, 426, New York. 

 CijUnm maculatum, GUNTIIER, Cat., u, 372, 1860; HOLBROOK, Ichth. S. Car., 66, 1860. 

 Scomberomonis maculatus, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 426, 1883; MEEK & NEWLAND, I. c., 233, 

 1885; DRESSLAR & PESLER, I. c., 443, pi. 9, 1889. 



1263. SCOMBEROMORUS SIERRA, Jordan & Starks. 

 (SIERRA.) 



Head 4f; depth 4f. D. XVIII-15-IX ; A. II-15-IX; maxillary If in 

 head; eye 5; pectoral If; ventral 3|; dorsal and anal lobes equal, If in 

 head. Body elongate, its dorsal and anal outline about equal ; profile 

 straight from snout to dorsal ; head small and pointed ; mouth large, 

 oblique, jaws equal ; maxillary reaching to posterior edge of orbit. 

 Teeth large, compressed, and sharp, -K on each side; gill rakers 

 4 + 11. Soft dorsal inserted almost directly over front of anal ; lateral 



